“Doors are Open” Faith
Baby Girl,
Wake. Up.
That’s right. It’s 2:15 AM. You decided, without asking My opinion, that it would be more convenient to reschedule our meeting to 4:45 AM so you could have uninterrupted sleep, still honor the hour you committed to Me, and then have your Tuesday “Angel Armies” prayer call with the ladies from 6-7 as usual. Is 4:45 AM the hour you committed to Me?
Is that what this is? A commitment? An obligation?
Is that what I AM? Is that WHO I AM to you?
Baby, “doors are open” faith is full of dead works.
Good. Tears. You understand what I’m saying to you.
Natural wisdom has taught you that uninterrupted sleep patterns are important. REM cycles, light sleep, deep sleep… they tell you that your mental and emotional health are tied to the quality of sleep you get. They are right. Sleep is important, but who are they to say what that looks like?
You’ve subconsciously linked your recent struggle to get those extra ten pounds off to our time together. You reasoned that maybe if you can just get up an hour earlier than usual for our time instead of the middle of the night, you’d get better sleep, your body would cooperate with your recent better food choices, and you’d shed the excess weight.
That extra ten pounds will come off when you make intentionally moving your body a priority again. You sit much more than you ever did because you don’t want to sacrifice time with Me for exercise. You’re off balance, Baby.
I get that when you came into agreement with your healing and experienced the freedom of a sound mind for the first time, I became everything. You were willing to give up whatever I asked, and you have faithfully. That’s exactly where I want your heart to be, but how to live that out for the rest of your life… we need to talk about.
You have given up everything I asked and more. “And more” is NOT a good thing. “And more” is a very bad thing. Don’t give up ANYTHING I haven’t asked you to give up.
I know you’re trying. That’s part of the problem. You’re trying. You’re not listening. You’ve gotten ahead of Me, so your life has become out of balance. You recently realized you’re doing it again, and you’ve started adjusting - but we have more adjustments to make.
Remember that when you are following Me, I will never rob from one arena to provide for you in another. YOU are not to rob from any area of your life to show up fully in another - including in the time you spend with Me.
The time you spend with Me should never come at the expense of your job. The time you have committed to work, you are to work undistracted by Me. You are working FOR Me at your job. You are simply being PAID by them. Do your job with excellence.
Show up on time. You have allowed the time you spend with Me to cause you to be unpredictable in your start time justifying that your clients are understanding. You are robbing from them when you stay later than planned with Me.
The time you spend with Me should never come at the expense of keeping your house clean and having dinner on the table at the agreed upon time. Don’t rob from your family because you got caught up in My Word. Set an alarm and put it down.
You’re hungry. I understand. So is your family. Feed them. You and I have a lifetime to spend together. These years to pour into your family are finite and your role in it is irreplaceable.
The time you spend with Me should never come at the expense of your sleep. I hear you thinking it, “Then why isn’t it a good idea to meet an hour before I would naturally wake up?” Who said this particular hour is coming at the expense of your sleep? If you kept our arrangement, this hour would not cost you any sleep at all.
When you honored your 9:00 PM bedtime last night, how did you spend the first hour of it? Entertaining a phone call because you didn’t want to be rude… and playing a game on your phone. When you realized it was 10:00 PM, you took it upon yourself to reschedule our meeting.
You’ve been tired. You have not been needing naps because our appointment is robbing you of sleep. You have been needing naps because you have been dishonoring your bedtime. You have been needing naps because once we meet for our hour, you don’t want to go back to sleep. You want to keep reading, keep journaling, keep praying, keep listening, record videos. You are not honoring your sleep when you go past our appointed hour. That is the same reason you dishonor your clients by showing up late.
Ask Me how to schedule your day. Listen. Set alarms. Stick with the plan - NO EXCEPTIONS. If you listen well, we will plan for what you now consider to be the “interruptions” or “changes” to the schedule. Those “interruptions” are often part of the plan you hadn’t taken the time to listen for.
The time you spend volunteering should not rob from the time you spend worshiping and fellowshipping with your family at church. Your generation has become a body full of Martha’s running around “making church happen” at the expense of sitting at My feet like Mary. You are teaching new disciples to do the same. Tell Me, who chose better?
The “building” of Christ is thriving while the body of Christ is slowly dying.
“Doors are open” faith is full of dead works, and you have lived your entire walk with Me in dead works. Dead works are everything you are doing “for Me” or “in My Name” that I never asked you to do.
If you see meeting with Me at 2:15 AM as a burden or an obligation, say the word, turn off your alarm, and I will cease to meet you here. I set this meeting time with you for your benefit, not my own. It’s 3:10 AM. Go to bed. Fall asleep meditating on what I’ve said.
Don’t tell Me you agree with what I’ve said to get My approval. I know your thoughts and I know your heart. Your behavior will let Me know if you have truly listened and taken My Words to heart.
I LOVE you, Baby Girl, and when you get this one right… it will change everything.
LOVE,
Daddy
Luke 10:40-42
